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De La Pratique Intertextuelle Dans L’Œuvre Romanesque D’Alain Mabanckou, Servilien Ukize Jan 2013

De La Pratique Intertextuelle Dans L’Œuvre Romanesque D’Alain Mabanckou, Servilien Ukize

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Studies on the contemporary African novel reveal the emergence of new themes in a narrative which, by breaking with the model of the pioneers of African literature, stands out by hybridization. Thus, orality and intertextuality are used to better express the realities of a socio-psychological world. This has led, on one hand, to an increased presence of the fantastic element and the mixture of different literary genres and, on the other hand, to the deconstruction of the traditional logic of fiction.

This work discusses the way in which the literary revival of a story and the repetition, conveyed through such …